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  Brussels / AFP Top US and NATO officials stressed the importance of preserving transatlantic security ties on Tuesday amid doubts raised by Donald Trump’s election as president. Trump stoked concerns that Washington’s near 70-year European defence guarantee might no longer hold when he said on the campaign trail he would think twice about helping NATO allies who did not pay ...

  Moscow / AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed off on a broad-ranging plan aimed at bolstering the country’s defences against cyberattacks from abroad and cracking down on perceived foreign influence. The Kremlin’s new “information security doctrine” comes as attention has focused on the rise in state-sponsored hacking after the US blamed Moscow for cyberattacks aimed at influencing ...

  London / AFP Up to 40 lawmakers from British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative party could back a motion in parliament demanding she publish her plan for Brexit before starting negotiations, it emerged on Tuesday. The rebellion might be enough to push the opposition motion through the 650-seat House of Commons on Wednesday, in a symbolic blow against May’s ...

  Manila / AFP Philippine police murdered a town mayor while he was helpless in a jail cell, justice department investigators said on Tuesday, contradicting claims by the accused and President Rodrigo Duterte that he was killed in a gun battle. The accusations by the National Bureau of Investigation deepened concerns that police were carrying out summary executions as part of ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi’s agribusiness leader Al Dahra Holding and Abu Dhabi Ports on Tuesday launched the Gulf region’s largest and only rice factory of its kind at Khalifa Industrial Zone (Kizad). The AED 140-million facility will produce up to 120,000 metric tonnes of rice per annum with 40 silos, each boasting a 750-tonne capacity. Owned by ...

  CAIRO / WAM A number of issues especially the follow-up on the implementation of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) will be discussed at the 42nd meeting of the senior officials of Implementation and Follow-up Committee of the Arab Ministries of Economy and Trade, which began on Tuesday in Cairo. Nizar Faisal Al-Meshaal, Director of Department of Economic ...

  Dubai / EMIRATES BUSINESS Leaders, scientists and experts from around the world gathered on Tuesday at one of the biggest international conferences dedicated to quinoa. More than 150 leaders, policymakers, scientists, experts and professionals from over 46 countries came together to discuss and share the latest developments in quinoa research, production and trade around the world, and develop a ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan sent a congratulatory cable to His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn on the occasion of his accession to the throne. Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al ...

  Dubai / EMIRATES BUSINESS Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) on Tuesday welcomed a delegation of 290 travel agents from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, visiting the emirate to attend the DER Touristik Campus Live Event, an incentive and training gathering that presents new travel programmes to agents from German-speaking markets. The event takes place from December ...

  ABU DHABI / EMIRATES BUSINESS The driverless Masdar Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system at carbon neutral Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, functioned at over 99% efficiency since it began services 6 years ago. The remarkable achievement is indicative of the system’s quality technology, dynamic safety features and robustness resulting in almost no failures or delays, zero collisions & accidents since ...